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100	1		_aWeirauch, Anna Elisabet, _d1887-1970
240	1	4	_aDer Skorpion. English
245	1	4	_aThe scorpion
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-31
508			_aAdam Buchbinder, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_a"The Scorpion" by Anna Elisabet Weirauch is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Myra Rudloff from a loveless, rule-bound childhood into a charged young adulthood, tracing her consuming attachments—first to a capricious governess and then to the formidable Olga Radó—against the strictures of bourgeois respectability. The book probes desire, jealousy, and pride, with the scorpion symbol evoking both self-protection and self-destruction. The opening of the novel introduces Myra through hearsay about thefts, lies, and a violent outburst, then shows how her father’s sheltered upbringing and Aunt Emily’s severity warp her longing for love. Myra falls painfully in love with her governess, Frieda, and, drawn into Frieda’s affair with a dubious ex-hussar, helps pawn family silver—scandal that ends the governess’s stay. Years later, Myra’s life ignites when she meets the magnetic Olga Radó; she orbits Olga’s moods, studies at her urging, befriends the gentle violinist Peterkin, and is transfixed by Olga’s emblematic scorpion cigarette case and talk of proud partings. After a sudden dismissal and Olga’s unexplained trip, postcards filter back via Peterkin; on Olga’s return, Myra resumes visits, steals a dunning letter in a jealous panic, secretly pays Olga’s debt by pawning her own things, and is sharply rebuked—only to be enlisted to pawn the scorpion case, which she cannot bring herself to do. As Olga drills her in languages (with Myra covertly channeling lesson money to her), Aunt Emily clamps down on Myra’s independence, a strained confrontation with her weak-willed father follows, and the section ends with Uncle George’s arrival and a foreboding “visit” planned about Myra. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Arno Press, 1932
653			_aLesbians -- Fiction
700	1		_aChambers, Whittaker, _d1901-1961
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77582
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